Work and Authority in Industry: Managerial Ideologies in the Course of Industrialization

by Reinhard Bendix

Overview

Work and Authority in Industry analyzes how the entrepreneurial class responded to the challenge of creating, and later managing, an industrial work force in widely differing types of industrial societies: the United States, England, and Russia. Bendix's penetrating re-examination of an aspect of economic history largely taken for granted was first published in 1965. It has become a classic. His central notion, that the behavior of the capitalist class may be more important than the behavior of the working class in determining the course of events, is now widely accepted. The book explores industrialization, management, and ideological appeals; entrepreneurial ideologies in England's early phase of industrialization; entrepreneurial ideologies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia; the bureaucratization of economic enterprises; and the American experience with -industrialization. This essential text will interest those in the fields of political science, industrial relations, management studies, as well as comparative sociologists and historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765806680
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	04/30/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	509
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Reinhard Bendix (1916-1991) was professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of many awards and honors throughout his lifetime, including being a fellow for the Fulbright Program, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholar. He belonged to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

Table of Contents

1. Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals, P A R T O N E 2. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in the Early Phase of Industrialization: The Case of England, 3. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia, P A R T T W O 4. The Bureaucratization of Economic Enterprises, P A R T T H R E E 5. The American Experience, 6. Managerial Ideologies in the Russian Orbit, 7. Conclusion: Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure.

Editorial Reviews

"The wealth of new materials, the comparative framework, the implications for the East-West struggle for power, the very great lucidity with which Bendix writes about complex materials, and not least, the detached, highly scholarly attitude he brings to his work, combine to make this into a sociological research of the first rank." —American Sociological Review "The book is truly global in its approach. It seeks to explain the rationalizations and justifications used in the subordination of employees in work organizations not only in the United States but also in England, Russia, and East Germany." —Industrial and Labor Relations Review

From the Publisher

Bendix's classic study of 1956 is reproduced here in its entirety, with a biographical and theoretical introduction provided by Mauro F. Guill<'e>n (Wharton School of the U. of Pennsylvania and Princeton Institute for Advanced Study). Bendix analyzes how the entrepreneurial class coped with creating and then managing an industrial work force in the diverse industrial societies of the US, England, and Russia. The study, Guill<'e>n tells us, was of crucial importance to the fields of sociology, industrial relations, management studies, and organizational theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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